Restored and Colorized Vintage Pictures: 45 Incredible Hand-Painting Photos of the Life in the U.S in the 1940s _ US
These incredibly amazing photos were colorized by photographer Marie-Lou Chatel. “I’ve always been fascinated with the work of the great photographers of the 20th century. Yet, when I look at their photos, I wonder what they saw in color while taking the photograph.”
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| Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue on a rainy day, New York, March 1943 |
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| Homeless man at The Bowery at night, New York, Sept. 1942 |
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| Girl sitting alone in the Sea Grill, a bar and restaurant waiting for a pickup, Washington D.C, Apr. 1943 |
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| Listening to a murder mystery on the radio in a boarding house room, Washington D.C, Jan. 1943 |
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| Grand Central Terminal, New York City, Oct. 1941 |
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| Sideshow at the cicus, Klamath Falls, Oregon, July 1942 |
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| Grand Central Terminal, New York City, Oct. 1941 |
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| Teenagers at a party in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1947 |
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| Guests of Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida, Jan. 1941 |
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| Time Square in a raining day, New York City, 1943 |
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| In the cafe at a truck drivers’ service station on U.S. 1 (New York Avenue), Washington D.C, June 1940 |
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| Woman in the shower bath in a boarding house, Washington D.C, Jan. 1943 |
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| In town on a Saturday afternoon, Heard County, Georgia, 1941 |
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| Women at work, Indiana, 1940-45 |
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| Listening to the teacher’s instructions in a physical education class at Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington, Oct. 1943 |
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| A windy day in Philadelphia, 1947 |
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| Lower Manhattan seen from the S.S. Coamo leaving New York, Dec. 1941 |
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| An administration clerk at the U.S. Office of Price, Washington, D.C, Jan. 1943 |
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| Men of the Quartermaster Truck Company of the 25th service group having a card game in one of the barracks, Greenville, South Carolina, July 1943 |
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| Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school, Washington, May 1942 |
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| Moccasins are worn without socks at Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington D.C, Oct. 1943 |
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| New Year’s Day Bleeker Street on New York, Jan. 1943 |
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| Soldier in front of the Capitol theatre, Washington D.C, March 1943 |
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| South Side market, Chicago, Arpril 1941 |
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| Spectator in the National Gallery of Art on a Sunday afternoon, Washington D.C, March 1942 |
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| Storefront church and lunch wagon, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois, Apr. 1941 |
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| Sunday bench sitters in front of the Central Park Zoo restaurant, New York, Sept. 1942 |
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| Waiting for a train in the concourse of the Union Station, Chicago, Illinois, Jan. 1943 |
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| Waiting for the trains at the Pennsylvania railroad station, New York, Aug. 1942 |
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| Watching a football game, Washington D.C, Oct. 1943 |
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| Woman with chili peppers, Concho, Arizona, Sept. 1940 |
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| Women gossiping in a drugstore over cokes, Washington D.C, March 1943 |
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| 7th Street and Florida Avenue, Washington, Aug. 1942 |
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| 1917 vintage trolley, Baltimore, Maryland, Apr. 1943 |
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| A corporal in the army takes his girl to dinner, California, May 1942 |
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| A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals, Sept. 1943 |
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| Soldiers and girsl saying goodbye at the Greyhound bus station, Indianapolis, Indiana, Sept. 1943 |
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| A student at Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington D.C, Oct. 1943 |
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| A woman and her dog in the Harlem section, New York, May 1943 |
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| Boys and girls, Caldwell, Idaho, 1941 |
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| Bus passenger enroute from Nashville to Memphis, March 1948 |
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| Children going home from school, Chillicothe, Ohio, Feb. 1940 |
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| Children playing, New York City, Dec. 1941 |
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| Chinese grocery store in Chinatown, New York, Aug. 1942 |
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| Farmer couple living in an old mansion in southern Greene County, Georgia, June 1941A |
